Consecrate vs Sanctify - What's the difference?
consecrate | sanctify |
To declare, or otherwise make something holy.
* 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
* Francis Bacon
To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
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To free from sin; to purify.
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To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
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To endorse with religious sanction.
Sanctify is a synonym of consecrate.
As verbs the difference between consecrate and sanctify
is that consecrate is to declare, or otherwise make something holy while sanctify is to make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.As an adjective consecrate
is consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.consecrate
English
Verb
(consecrat)- But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate', we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have ' consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
Synonyms
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* desecrate * defileAdjective
(en adjective)- They were assembled in that consecrate place.
sanctify
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Verb
(en-verb)- And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified , but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
- For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.